DATAMITE plenary meeting in Poznan
From 14 to 16 may, 2024, the DATAMITE Consortium met in Poznan to host its first plenary meeting of 2024. The meeting was three days divided into a first day of CodeCamp with the developers involved in the project, followed by two days of presentations of each work package with the entire consortium.
The first day was dedicated to a CodeCamp with the members in charge of developing the project's code. The team was divided into three groups to be able to talk in person about the status of the project and work together on the obstacles they are encountering. These three groups were ‘Data governance and Data discovery’, ‘Data Quality’, and ‘Gaia-X Onboarding’.
For the second and third day of the plenary meeting, the remaining partners who were not involved in the codecamp joined in. The 15th and 16th of May were dedicated to presentations of each work package and different internal workshops. These activities aimed to keep the whole consortium informed about the status of each DATAMITE element, while also fostering exchange of ideas among partners to gather valuable inputs for upcoming tasks.
Among some of the most important topics discussed were the next deliverables that the project has to present and the mid-term project review meeting that will take place during September.
In addition to the three intense days of work, the DATAMITE consortium enjoyed a guided tour of the beautiful city of Poznan followed by a local dinner and a visit to the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) facilities, thanks to the colleagues of PSNC, who hosted this plenary meeting.
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The fifth DATAMITE newsletter is out!
The fifth edition of the DATAMITE newsletter is now available. In this new edition you will find:
- Use Cases: Offering Data to Service Providers with DataSpaces. by HEDNO and CERTH.
- The latest interviews of our campaign: People behind DATAMITE.
- External and internal events we have attended as a consortium.
- Don't miss the video we made for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science: "We are proud to be women scientists".
- Call for Papers and Abstracts!
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DATAMITE internal workshop - Exploitation Webinar
One of the great advantages of being such a large consortium of research and development partners, academic partners, large industrial partners, SMEs and a standards body, is to be able to learn from each other. In order to foster this continuous exchange of knowledge among the partners and thus acquire, as a Consortium as a whole, new skills to achieve the best project results in all fields, Antonis Sapountzis, leader of Work Package 6, hosted an internal webinar on exploitation.
Exploitation, included in Work Package 6: Outreach, Exploitation and Collaboration, is the key to achieving wider impacts of DATAMITE in the longer term (5 years or more) on the scientific community, the economy and society.
As an ambitious open source project, DATAMITE has a clear path for the exploitation of its results designed by AUSTRALO, DATAMITE's partner in charge of the Dissemination, Exploitation and Communication plans. The project's exploitation plan is based on three main exploitation models:
- The commercial exploitation model, which involves the paid, open-access provision of project results to end-users.
- The research exploitation model, which involves the use of acquired research knowledge in future research activities.
- The technology exploitation model, which involves the use of acquired technological knowledge for the development of innovative products and their supply.
Internal workshops such as this one allow the consortium to acquire the necessary skills to ensure not only immediate success, but also in the medium and long term, where DATAMITE aims to be a major player in the European data market revolution.
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Call for papers: eSAAM 2024 on Data Spaces
The 4th Eclipse Security, Artificial Intelligence, Architecture, and Modelling (eSAAM) Conference on DATA SPACES will take place 22 October in Mainz, Germany. This event is organised by Instituto Tecnológico de Informática (ITI), the coordinator of DATAMITE, along with the Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH), the Eclipse Foundation, and the University of Macedonia. The conference will bring together industry experts and researchers working on innovative software and systems solutions for data spaces.
The eSAAM 2024 on Data Spaces conference is an excellent platform for researchers to showcase their work to stakeholders from industry, standards bodies and open source initiatives, driving the evolution of data spaces. To this end, a call for papers has been launched with a submission deadline of 12 May.
This conference encourages submissions that report on constructive, design-oriented research on innovative artefacts, such as software, models, and methods related to the conference theme. The conference is focused on, but not limited to, the following topics of interest:
- Data Space Security and Privacy.
- Data Space Architecture.
- AI and Machine Learning in Data Spaces.
- Modelling for Data Space Systems.
More information about the conference and the rules of presentation here.
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Women in Science Day: we are proud to be women scientists
Every 11th of February we celebrate the International Day of women and Girls in Science. This milestone is a celebration but, moreover, it is a reminder of the need to achieve equality in STEM in order to not miss any possible talent. “A significant gender gap has persisted throughout the years at all levels of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines all over the world. Even though women have made tremendous progress towards increasing their participation in higher education, they are still under-represented in these fields”, states the UN.
The DATAMITE consortium is acutely aware of the reality of inequality in the STEM sector and fully supports measures to promote and establish real equality, both within the project consortium and across the scientific community. At DATAMITE we are aware that we are a rare bird, as we have a large number of women in our ranks. And yet, we are far from the desired equality.
Naturally, the focus today is on the women who are part of the project and who have joined forces to shout out loud "we are proud to be women scientists".
Watch their video here.
The fourth DATAMITE newsletter is out!
The fourth edition of the DATAMITE newsletter is now available. In this new edition you will find:
- A year of DATAMITE as seen from every Work Package (WP).
- Campaign: Meet the people behind DATAMITE, with Santiago Cáceres Elvira and Vasso Apostolopoulou.
- Internal events, such as the European Big Data Value Forum.
- All about the last DATAMITE plenary meeting of the year.
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New YouTube channel
We are delighted to announce the launch of the DATAMITE YouTube channel. We will be sharing information, interviews, updates and much more about the DATAMITE project, an innovative initiative designed to help European businesses and public administrations overcome the challenges of data monetisation.
DATAMITE focuses on simplifying data monetisation through key modules such as Data Governance, Quality or Security. Our approach, based on open source components, ensures seamless integration with leading storage technologies. Our user-centric design, intuitive interfaces and comprehensive training materials address both technical and business audiences.
Visit DATAMITE’s YouTube Channel, and join the data revolution!
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DATAMITE holds its last plenary meeting of 2023
From 21 to 22 November, the DATAMITE Consortium met in Bologna to host its third -and last of 2023- plenary meeting. Two days of intense work that have served to discuss the progress made so far and next steps to achieve the project’s main aim: to provide a modular, open-source and multi-domain Framework for Improving Data Monetisation.
The meeting, hosted at the premises of CINECA, was developed over two full days in order to make an in-depth assessment of the progress made during these first 11 months of work and to establish the necessary roadmaps to start producing tangible results for the beginning of DATAMITE's second year of life. We are approaching the halfway point of the project and, although as a consortium we are very happy with the pace of work, it is necessary to start moving from theory to practice in order to revolutionise the European Data Market.
The first day of the meeting started with an overview of the status of the project with the Project Coordinator, Santiago Cáceres Elvira, PMP from ITI, followed by two parallel sessions to discuss Data Sharing Mechanisms and Data Sovereignty, and the project's business and quality approach to fostering the European Data Economy, respectively. Following these two focus groups, the consortium discussed one of the core aspects of DATAMITE: the architecture of the pilots. All attendees participated in this practical workshop, whose main aim was to derive the architectural concept of each pilot, including a mapping of components and functionalities covered. In the afternoon two parallel sessions took place on Data Governance, Quality, Security and Support Modules on the one hand, and Dissemination, Exploitation and Collaboration on the other. The day ended with a plenary session on Front end, Open Source and WP5 Integration, Demonstration, and Validation.
The morning of the second day was devoted to an in-depth review of the status, the next steps and the risk mitigation strategies for each work package, so that all members of the consortium were aware of progress to date. To conclude the day, and the meeting, we resumed the session on pilot architecture so that each partner in charge of its leadership could present the ideas and issues discussed the previous day.
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The third DATAMITE newsletter is out!
The third edition of the DATAMITE newsletter is now available. In this new edition you will find:
- Santiago Cáceres Elvira, DATAMITE coordinator inaugurates the new school year.
- Discover DATAMITE and the development of common EU Data spaces.
- Use Case: Connecting eDWIN to data markets by WODR and PSNC Future Labs.
- Upcoming event: Join us at the European Big Data Value forum.
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The second DATAMITE newsletter is out!
The second edition of the DATAMITE newsletter is now available. In this new edition you will find:
- In-depth article: 'The state of data Monetization in the EU: How DATAMITE will contribute to unlock the potential of data'.
- Use Case: Corporate Multi-Site Data Exchange, by OTE and EGI.
- Deliverable 6.1 Impact Master Plan.
- All about the second DATAMITE plenary meeting in Athens.
- National and international events in which DATAMITE has participated.
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